Challenge: Existing methods for medical report generation are unable to capture useful information from historical cases.
Approach: They propose a model that captures both visual and semantic information from similar cases.
Outcome: The proposed model outperforms the state-of-the-art models on almost all metrics on IU X-Ray and MIMIC-CXR benchmarks.

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Challenge: Recent studies show that learning-based models fail to accurately capture and describe abnormal regions due to data bias.
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CmEAA: Cross-modal Enhancement and Alignment Adapter for Radiology Report Generation (2025.coling-main)

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Challenge: Existing methods for automatic radiology report generation suffer from data bias.
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Cross-modal Memory Networks for Radiology Report Generation (2021.acl-long)

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Challenge: Medical imaging reports are essential in clinical practice, and generating the reports is beneficial to reduce the burden of radiologists.
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Learning Visual-Semantic Embeddings for Reporting Abnormal Findings on Chest X-rays (2020.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Existing work on report generation often trains encoder-decoder networks to generate complete reports, but such models are affected by data bias and face common issues inherent in text generation models.
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Challenge: Radiology report generation aims at generating descriptive text from radiology images automatically.
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Challenge: Image-to-text generation relies on independent models for image understanding and natural language generation, which often exhibit a semantic gap between visual and textual information.
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Reinforced Cross-modal Alignment for Radiology Report Generation (2022.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Medical images are widely used in clinical decision-making, where writing radiology reports can be enhanced by automatic solutions to alleviate physicians’ workload.
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Controllable Chest X-Ray Report Generation from Longitudinal Representations (2023.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Radiology reports are detailed text descriptions of the content of medical scans.
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On the Automatic Generation of Medical Imaging Reports (P18-1)

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Challenge: a complete medical imaging report contains multiple heterogeneous forms of information, including findings and tags . abnormal regions in medical images are difficult to identify and the reports are typically long, containing multiple sentences.
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Challenge: Existing methods for capturing nuanced visual information are prone to data bias and noise.
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